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* [RFC] PCI: allow sysfs file owner to read the config space with CAP_SYS_RAWIO
@ 2020-10-16  5:52 Allen Pais
  2020-10-16  6:20 ` Greg KH
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Allen Pais @ 2020-10-16  5:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-pci; +Cc: bhelgaas, ast, gregkh, linux-kernel, Allen Pais, Allen Pais

From: Allen Pais <apais@linux.microsoft.com>

 Access to pci config space is explictly checked with CAP_SYS_ADMIN
in order to read configuration space past the frist 64B.

 Since the path is only for reading, could we use CAP_SYS_RAWIO?
This patch contains a simpler fix, I would love to hear from the
Maintainers on the approach.

 The other approach that I considered was to introduce and API
which would check for multiple capabilities, something similar to
perfmon_capable()/bpf_capable(). But I could not find more users
for the API and hence dropped it.

 The problem I am trying to solve is to avoid handing out
CAP_SYS_ADMIN for extended reads of the PCI config space.

Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <allen.pais@lkml.com>
---
 drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
index 6d78df981d41..6574c0203475 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
@@ -666,7 +666,8 @@ static ssize_t pci_read_config(struct file *filp, struct kobject *kobj,
 	u8 *data = (u8 *) buf;
 
 	/* Several chips lock up trying to read undefined config space */
-	if (file_ns_capable(filp, &init_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+	if (file_ns_capable(filp, &init_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ||
+	    file_ns_capable(filp, &init_user_ns, CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
 		size = dev->cfg_size;
 	else if (dev->hdr_type == PCI_HEADER_TYPE_CARDBUS)
 		size = 128;
-- 
2.25.1


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